India, Asia, Continents

On 31 Jan 1888 Herbrand Arthur Sackville 11th Duke Bedford (age 29) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford were married at Barrackpore. He the son of Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 68) and Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 69). He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

In 1805 Arthur Haselrigge 9th Baronet (age 48) died unmarried at Bengal, India. His uncle Thomas (age 76) succeeded 10th Baronet Haselrigge of Noseley Hall in Leicestershire.

On 23 Jun 1815 John Eardley-Wilmot (age 67) died in Bengal, India.

Robert Wilmot died in Bengal, India.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 06 Dec 1661. Lay long in bed, and then to Westminster Hall [Map] and there walked, and then with Mr. Spicer, Hawly, Washington, and little Mr. Ashwell (my old friends at the Exchequer) to the Dog [Map], and gave them two or three quarts of wine, and so away to White Hall, where, at Sir G. Carteret's (age 51), Sir Williams both and I dined very pleasantly; and after dinner, by appointment, came the Governors of the East India Company, to sign and seal the contract between us¹ (in the King's (age 31) name) and them.

Note 1. Charles II's charter to the Company, confirming and extending the former charter, is dated April 3rd, 1661. Bombay, India, just acquired as part of Queen Katherine's dowry, was made over to the Company by Letters Patent dated March 27th, 1669.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Sep 1663. So home with her, and then I away (Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill [Map], and there, abating only some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in things relating to the East Indys; both of the country and the disappointment the King (age 33) met with the last voyage, by the knavery of the Portugall Viceroy, and the inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim¹, if we had had it. But, above all things, it seems strange to me that matters should not be understood before they went out; and also that such a thing as this, which was expected to be one of the best parts of the Queen's (age 24) portion, should not be better understood; it being, if we had it, but a poor place, and not really so as was described to our King in the draught of it, but a poor little island; whereas they made the King and Chancellor (age 54), and other learned men about the King, believe that that, and other islands which are near it, were all one piece; and so the draught was drawn and presented to the King, and believed by the King and expected to prove so when our men came thither; but it is quite otherwise.

Note 1. Bombay, India, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669. The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat to Bombay in 1685-87.

On 25 Dec 1757 Captain Robert Frankland died at Bombay, India while Commander of HMS Yarmouth.

In 1771 John Prinsep (age 24) arrived at Bombay, India as a cadet for the East India Company.

In 1826 Fanny Anna West was born to Edward West and Lucretia Georgiana ffolkes at Bombay, India.

On 15 Oct 1828 Lucretia Georgiana ffolkes died in childbirth at Bombay, India eleven days after having given birth to a posthumous son who only lived at few hours.

On 14 Feb 1896 Brigadier Valentine Cecil Cavendish was born to Cecil Charles Cavendish (age 40) and Maud Henrietta Halliday at Cawnpore.

On 05 Mar 1873 James Dutton 6th Baron Sherborne was born to Charles Dutton (age 30) at Fatchgarn.

On 20 Nov 1863 James Bruce 12th Earl Kincardine 8th Earl Elgin (age 52) died of a heart attack while crossing a swinging rope and wood bridge over the river Chadly, on the lap between Kullu and Lahul in Himachal Pradesh. He was buried at St John in the Wilderness Church, Dharamshala. His son Victor (age 14) succeeded 13th Earl Kincardine, 9th Earl Elgin.

After 1856. St Mary's Church, Halford [Map]. Memorial to Lieutenant Charles Wade Crump who was killed at Lucknow, and Robert Crump who died of Cholera in 1854. They were the only sons of the Rector of Halford Charles Collins Crump and his wife Sarah.

On 14 Mar 1858 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Onslow Winnington Ingram (age 41) was killed in the Kaiserbagh in Lucknow, a ball passing through his head, during the Indian Mutiny.

Before Oct 1914 Captain Philip Noel Sanderson (age 27) and Doris Jordan were married at Lucknow.

In 1693 George Morton Pitt was born to John Pitt Consul Masulipatam at Madras aka Chennai, India.

Around 1764 Anne Palk Lady Wrey was born to Robert Palk 1st Baronet (age 46) and Anne van Sittart Lady Palk at Madras aka Chennai, India.

On 22 Nov 1862 Major Henry Loftus (age 39) died at Murree, India.

On 28 Jul 1867 Adrian George Allgood was born to Major-General George Allgood (age 39) and Elizabeth Clayton (age 30) at Murree, India.

On 16 Aug 1828 Edward West died at Poonah.

On 13 Nov 1871 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill 9th Duke of Marlborough was born to George Charles Spencer-Churchill 8th Duke of Marlborough (age 27) and Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton Duchess of Marlborough (age 24) at Simla.

On 02 Dec 1814 Louisa Martha Stratford (age 35) died in Sri Lanka.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 15 Feb 1664. This afternoon Sir Thomas Chamberlin (age 62) came to the office to me, and showed me several letters from the East Indys, showing the height that the Dutch are come to there, showing scorn to all the English, even in our only Factory there of Surat, beating several men, and hanging the English Standard St. George under the Dutch flagg in scorn; saying, that whatever their masters do or say at home, they will do what they list, and will be masters of all the world there; and have so proclaimed themselves Soveraigne of all the South Seas; which certainly our King cannot endure, if the Parliament will give him money. But I doubt and yet do hope they will not yet, till we are more ready for it.